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Heating and cooling space habitats isn't easy -- one engineering team is developing a lighter, more efficient solution

  • Written by Issam Mudawar, Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Heating and cooling space habitats isn't easy -- one engineering team is developing a lighter, more efficient solutionIt's hard to keep a spacecraft cool, but ongoing research on the International Space Station might yield a solution. AP Photo/Eric Gay

China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s.

Once there, their eventual goal is to set up a base. But a successful base – along with the spacecraft that will carry people to it...

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